A57 road
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The A57 is a major road in England. It runs east from Liverpool to Lincoln, via Warrington and Manchester, then through the Pennines over the Snake Pass (between the high moorlands of Bleaklow and Kinder Scout), around the Ladybower Reservoir, through Sheffield and past Worksop.
Within Manchester a short stretch becomes the A57(M) motorway.
The three-mile £4m Aston Relief Road in Sheffield opened in mid-1985. The five-mile £11.3m Worksop Southern Bypass opened in May 1986.
Def Leppard drummer, rick allen lost his arm in a car wreck on this road, shorty before they started recording Hysteria, their Forth album. He still records and tours with Def Leppard
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